Corrections and clarifications

• Reporting on a controversy over Metropolitan police plans to make firearms officers available to commanders for duties in five London boroughs, we said these officers would carry submachine guns. The Met points out that the weapon in question is the single-shot variation of the Heckler & Koch MP5 submachine gun (the MP5SF). What we should have said, therefore, is that the officers would be carrying semi-automatics (Met chief scraps plan for armed police patrols, 28 October, page 7; Armed police plan angers Met authority, 22 October, guardian.co.uk).

• An article looked at the workings of the deposit protection system introduced by law in 2007 to help tenants get their money back at the end of a rental in the event of a dispute. Referring to one of the main companies authorised as a protection provider, mydeposits.co.uk, the piece should have said that it is lettings agents – rather than private landlords – who are required by mydeposits to keep their tenants' deposits in a ringfenced bank account (Landlords stranded by deposit scheme, 24 October, page 4, Money). The spokesman for the National Landlords Association has also asked us to clarify a comment attributed to him: it is the deposit protection system whose regulations are unconcerned about the landlord, he was saying, not the deposit protection providers.

• A photograph of prominent black Britons filling the cabinet room at Downing Street should have been credited to Antony Blondell (It's the cabinet – but not as we know it, 20 October, page 3, G2).